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![]() ![]() One is that our jumpy, ingratiating, prying TV culture can’t handle events of real gravity. It also sets up some more imposing satirical points. The premise requires some laborious explanations of make-believe computer technologies and time warps, but it also allows Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, and other phantoms to wander into the narrative and be skewered. ![]() As for Jesus, he is, at least in Paul’s vision ”on the eastbound Jerusalem-Damascus freeway,” grossly fat: ”Wide as He was tall, Jesus waddled toward me… He spoke, His voice so high, so shrill that only the odd canine ever got the whole message.” This is a novel in which the apostle Paul is portrayed as a fluent liar and active homosexual who recruits his disciple Timothy, the book’s breezily cynical narrator, because of his ”golden hyacinthine curls and cornflower-blue, forget-me-not eyes and the largest d- in our part of Asia Minor.” Paul (or ”Saint,” as Timothy irreverently calls him) takes a show-biz approach to evangelism, accompanying his preaching with tap dancing and juggling and caring more for cash flow than Christian charity. ![]() If they do, Vidal can expect a verdict of blasphemy and perhaps a holy hit squad any day now. The experiment is to determine whether Christian fundamentalists have approximately the same boiling point as the Muslim fundamentalists who have bedeviled Salman Rushdie. Finally, in his 23rd novel, Live From Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal has turned to experimental fiction. ![]()
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